(1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(2) They all abstain from social media for fear of getting embroiled in some brouhaha.
(3) Before it, Koke was sliding into challenges like a nut down the left, nearly starting a minor brouhaha.
(4) 9.16pm BST 57 min: Now Snodgrass and Walcott go in the book for the second-biggest handbag-based brouhaha this week.
(5) Gove's reforms haven't caused the same "brouhaha" as the health reforms, Bell points out.
(6) In all the brouhaha, let's not forget England were on the front foot at the end of the half.
(7) The history of mutual antipathy runs deep and when Wenger said he did not wish to comment on whether he would shake the Chelsea manager’s hand, his expression tightening, the tension this whole brouhaha provokes was palpable.
(8) Three months before the brouhaha over Asterix and the Picts , she slipped quietly into the shops as translator of Eugen Ruge's In Times of Fading Light – the story of three generations of an East German family.
(9) Second, the handful of service companies so often at the centre of these brouhahas – Capita , Serco , G4S – are working honourably to the modern business objective of maximising profit, but they do not necessarily care what this does to the NHS, or to the staff who keep it upright.
(10) I had read the pieces about it I had heard the substance of the brouhaha.
(11) 3.57pm BST In all the commotion on Centre and the row over Lisicki's time-out, I missed the brouhaha at the end of the Lopez-Wawrinka match.
(12) But beyond all the brouhaha about the cost of the contents of her makeup bag, which Jezebel totted up to a whopping $1,977.75 (around £1,290), the most interesting revelation (and the only free tip) is that Kardashian only washes her hair every five days.
(13) "The whole brouhaha has become so complex over what the implications are for John Brennan, and whether the Post has done this for political reasons.
(14) At that time, it wasn't surrounded by all the briefed brouhaha about squatters, but was clearly aimed at Travellers.
(15) 10.47pm: Clarke added that he spent yesterday touring the TV studios because it was "let's face it, a media brouhaha".
(16) Nevertheless, it is my policy to leave no bandwagon unjumped, and so here's my contribution to the unfolding brouhaha.
(17) Recently, without much discussion or brouhaha, railings and barriers disappeared from London's major roads, as part of a programme of "decluttering".
(18) Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over "like a cigarette should" is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance.
(19) QUOTE OF THE WEEK "All these brouhaha and controversies about the World Cup budget were concocted by wicked [journalists] who should have known better and who know the real truth but won't say it as it is.
(20) In the first of two exchanges, I spoke with Crabb on the record via instant messaging before the show went to air (and before all the subsequent brouhaha).
Ruckus
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There was unconvincing talk of an injury but as journalists waited in the car park for players after the game, we became aware of a ruckus on the Togo team bus.
(2) Dridi and Khalil's bags were stolen in the ruckus but Dridi's was returned by an Egyptian who managed to wrestle it back.
(3) But imagine the ruckus that Duggan would have caused, if you'd held his boy up on the stairs, impeding him from getting to the next boiler on his list, and shortening his plunder opportunities.
(4) After initially appearing to declare that the bill had gone through, lieutenant governor David Dewhurst said at about 3am that it had passed by 19 votes to 10 – but added that the "ruckus and noise going on" had prevented him from completing the formalities required to rubber-stamp it into law.
(5) There was, of course, the magnificent ruckus at the US embassy in Ankara, and the gloriously quotable lecture Pinter gave on torture.
(6) Sano added: “I have to protect my family and staff from persistent attacks and harassment over the ruckus.
(7) If you have a boat letting in water in the middle of a storm, you had better be at the wheel António Horta-Osório He is no doubt hoping that these characteristics will mean a ruckus can be avoided over his £11.5m pay packet - which has to be approved at the bank’s annual meeting on 14 May, just a week after the general election.
(8) Caught between Tony Abbott’s untenable $80bn in cuts to hospitals and schools and his own cabinet’s unwillingness to increase federal spending or taxes, Turnbull found a bit of extra money and then raised an almighty ruckus with a wild plan to solve the rest of the problem.
(9) Describing the event online as a "ruckus street party" organisers said they were rallying against gentrification, racist police murders, outrageous rent prices and "the displacement of all that is queer".
(10) Perhaps the most striking aspect of this particular ruckus was Shakey’s admission that he “used to line up and get my latte every day”.
(11) Israel's president, Shimon Peres, also sought to smooth over the ruckus.
(12) There's a bit of a ruckus as they celebrate and some Uruguayan players express their displeasure with a few of them as well as with the referee.
(13) Recently, there’s been some ruckus about suggestions made by Noel Pearson , which drew on earlier submissions to the committee made by his Cape York Institute.
(14) An enterprising young promoter from a prominent Sydney bar has taken the opportunity to follow the crowd handing out free drink cards, while a confused tourist is trying to pick someone out of the crowd to explain all this ruckus.
(15) Back in the “less is less” session in Canberra, Australia’s prime minister also declined to say anything more than absolutely necessary about what Trump had given Australia by way of undertakings on the refugee resettlement deal – presumably lest Breitbart find out, and start a nasty ruckus.
(16) "Thankfully, it didn't take long for the ruckus to again settle down.
(17) In the end, Republican lawmakers had to admit defeat: "With all the ruckus and noise going on," Mr Dewhurst said, he could not complete administrative duties to make the vote official and sign the bill.
(18) David Dewhurst, the Texas lieutenant governor, told reporters that a 19-10 vote in favour of the bill came within time, but "with all the ruckus and noise going on, I couldn't sign the bill".
(19) Win Pe said shortly after the gun blast there was “a ruckus outside, and I thought, now, now, come in now.
(20) This is the thing that caused the big ruckus when Ben Affleck was here.